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| A state of political hostility existing between countries, characterized by threats, violent propaganda, subversive activities, and other measures short of open warfare |
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| A notional barrier that prevents the passage of information or ideas between political entities, in particular. |
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| The action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits |
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| United states diplomat who recomended a policy of containment in dealing in soviet aggression |
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| was a policy set forth by U.S. President Harry S Truman on March 12, 1947 stating that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere |
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| The U.S.-sponsored program implemented following the Second World War to aide European countries |
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| supply of vital necessities to West Berlin by air transport primarily under U.S. auspices. It was initiated in response to a land and water blockade of the city that had been instituted by the Soviet Union in the hope that the Allies would be forced to abandon West Berlin. The massive effort to supply the 2 million West Berliners with food and fuel for heating began in June, 1948, and lasted until Sept., 1949, although the Russians lifted the blockade in May of that year. During the around-the-clock airlift some 277,000 flights were made, many at 3-min intervals. By spring, 1949, an average of 8,000 tons was being flown in daily |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization. |
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| The Warsaw Pact is the name commonly given to the treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, which was signed in Poland in 1955 and was officially called 'The Treaty of Friendship |
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| re the regions between Germany and russia that were formed with the assistance of the UN after the end of WWII |
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| The easing of hostility or strained relations |
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| competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union |
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| The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty or ABMT) was a treaty between the United States of America and the Soviet Union on the limitation of the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems used in defending areas against missile-delivered nuclear weapons |
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| National Personal Transportation Study |
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| SALT I led to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and an interim agreement between the two powers. Although SALT II resulted in an agreement in 1979, the United States chose not to ratify the treaty in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which took place later that year. The US eventually withdrew from SALT II in 1986. |
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| Fear and Loathing in High Places |
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| American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense. Once noted as the "organizer of victory" by Winston Churchill for his leadership of the Allied victory in World War II |
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| Vice president while Roosevelt was in office and when Roosevelt died he took over |
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| Leader of Russia during the 2nd world war and was leader during the cold war |
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| British officer, statesman, and writer. As Prime Minister of Britain during World War II |
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